Because travel is better with two - By writer/editor/photographer Melanie Wynne
Our first European trip together, in the Fall of 2002,
was two weeks in Northern Italy:
Venice, Verona, Lakes Como and Maggiore,
the Cinque Terre, Florence, and Tuscany.
We felt like the sky was golden the entire time, just for us…
but it turns out it just looks like that.
And to think, there’s still Rome, Bologna, Corsica,
Naples, Umbria, the Amalfi Coast, Sicily…
Here are some resources to help you
plan your own “travels with two” to Italy!
Continued from Cinque Terre: Part One
Italian for “Five Lands,” the Cinque Terre is a collection of five consecutive (and gorgeous) villages along what’s known as the Italian Riviera, on the Ligurian Sea.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site, this dramatic meeting place of the French Alps and Italian Appenines has been historically hard to reach and largely untouched by modern industry, technology and tourist development.
Which is exactly why you should visit. [Read more...]
Someday, I’ll be an old woman on my deathbed.
According to our plan, Adam will have just passed away quietly a few moments before; this will have been my cue to tidy up the house, make a few calls, lie down beside him and wait for the Grim Reaper.
In those last moments, I know I’ll think of one special part of the world: the Cinque Terre, in Northern Italy.
Truly, it’s that beautiful. [Read more...]
Verona's Adige River
Years ago now, Adam and I toured Northern Italy, and one of our favorite ports of call was Verona, the other Renaissance beauty of the Veneto.
This is the real-life setting of the fictional Romeo and Juliet, fair readers. We’re talking gilded churches, cobblestone lanes, secret gardens, a medieval castle, even a famous Roman arena.
In Verona you’d have to work extremely hard to miss out on romance…so why even fight it? [Read more...]
I don’t know about you, but I could sure use a little daydreaming today.
Adam took this photo of Venice’s Grand Canal and Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute back in September 2002, from the center of the Ponte dell’Accademia. So far, it’s my favorite photo from our travels.
Minutes after this photo was taken, we would stumble into one of the city’s most glorious art museums, the Gallerie dell’Accademia, and surprise ourselves by falling in love with the golden paintings of the Byzantine. Hours later, we’d be back on the water again, sluicing along in a shiny black gondola, the sky almost violet, lights twinkling from every palazzo.
Ah, Venice.
